Sentenced To Marry Her Cook? Emperor Justinian II’s Bizarre Punishment Of A Rebel’s Wife

Yes, according to medieval chronicles, Emperor Justinian II of Constantinople (r. 685-695, 705-711) sentenced the wife of a rebel to marry her household cook....

A Summary Of 15th-Century Witchcraft Beliefs By Pope Innocent VIII

Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755/1757-1804) "Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle...

Moses In The Bullrushes, By Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937)

This blue painting, by the American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), re-creates a storied scene from the early life of Moses, the famous Hebrew...

The Tale Of A Haunted Mansion In Ancient Athens

A curious ghost story about a haunted Athenian mansion had spread its way by word of mouth around the Roman Empire by the 1st...

Heraclitus

Heraclitus (c. 540-480 BCE) "This world-order (kosmos) was made neither by god nor by man, but it was always and is and shall be; fire...

Diana and Endymion, By Johann Michael Rottmayr (c. 1654-1730)

This painting, by the Austrian artist Johann Michael Rottmayr (c. 1654-1730), was inspired by the story of the mythological figure, Endymion. His tale is...

Rome’s Underhanded Acquisition Of Disputed Land In 446 BCE

446 BCE was a busy year for the Romans. According to the historian Livy, it was a year that played host to both military...

Kjartan Olafsson (from the Laxdæla Saga)

  Kjartan Olafsson (said to have lived c. 970-1003) "If a man's got to die anyway, he might as well make a name for himself before...
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